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Seasons & Festivals Tour

Ghanaian festivals, durbars, culture, harvest traditions, history and regional attractions.

Seasons & Festivals Tour
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Seasons & Festivals Tour

Ghana has many ethnic groups with annual festivals that retell history, celebrate harvests, honor chiefs and display rich customs in color, music, food and ceremony. This tour is planned around festival dates and your schedule.

Homowo Bakatue Aboakyer Adae Kese
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Itinerary Highlights

01. Homowo Festival Join the Ga people of Greater Accra as they commemorate the end of famine through food, songs, palace visits and community rituals.
02. Bakatue Festival Experience Elmina's fishing festival with regattas, masqueraders, durbars and stories of the town's founding.
03. Aboakyer Festival Witness Winneba's historic hunting festival, colorful durbar and traditions connected to the Simpa people.
04. Fetu Afahye Take part in Cape Coast's festival focused on cleansing, remembrance, culture and heritage.
05. Hogbetsotso Festival Learn the Ewe story of exodus from Notsie through reenactments, exhibitions, cuisine and community celebration.
06. Kundum Festival Explore the Ahanta and Nzema harvest festival with distinctive dress, masks, drums, shrines and thanksgiving rituals.
07. Adae Kese Festival See the Asantehene receive homage during a major Ashanti celebration of history, harvest and ancestral honor.
08. Damba Festival Experience northern chieftaincy celebration connected to the birth and naming of Muhammad.
09. Bugum Chugu Fire Festival Witness a charged Dagomba fire festival with torches, traditional weapons, dance and bonfire rituals.
10. Festival Route Attractions Add Cape Coast Castle, Kakum National Park, Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, Boti Waterfalls, Aburi Botanical Gardens and Fantasy Coffin Workshops.
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